LightLeaderboard vs Metaplay
LightLeaderboard
leaderboard.goproso.com
Metaplay
metaplay.ioSide by side
| Figure | LightLeaderboard | Metaplay |
|---|---|---|
| Price from | $19/mo | €195/mo |
| Free plan | — | Yes |
| Free trial | — | Yes |
| Open source | — | — |
| Web | Yes | Yes |
| Windows | Yes | Yes |
| macOS | Yes | Yes |
| Linux | Yes | Yes |
| iOS | Yes | Yes |
| Android | Yes | Yes |
| API | Yes | Yes |
| Self-hosted | — | Yes |
| Plans published | 2 | 17 |
| Spec score · Game Leaderboard Software | 7.7 (#25) | 9.0 (#4) |
| Integrations | The maker lists examples or guides for Kaboom.js, Phaser, PixiJS, Godot, Unity, and Unreal, alongside raw REST access. | Metaplay lists analytics export to BigQuery and S3, purchase validation for Google Play, App Store and Steam, and sign-in options including Google, Apple, Facebook, Steam and custom web login. |
| Intended users | The maker describes the product for indie game developers, multiplayer game creators, hackathon builders, and game studios. | Metaplay describes its audience as ambitious game studios building server-authoritative games, from prototype through global launch, including teams operating multiple titles. |
| Security | The service supports HMAC-SHA256 score signing, per-key rate limits, and score bounds; its documentation says API keys and score secrets should stay server-side. | The maker describes TLS-encrypted client-server communication, encrypted database data at rest through the cloud provider, role-based access controls and audit logs. |
| Support | Priority support is listed as a Pro plan feature. | The pricing page offers community Discord support, weekday engineer support tiers, and a critical incident add-on with 24/7 availability and a one-hour response SLA. |
| What it does | LightLeaderboard provides real-time global leaderboards for games through a REST API. | Metaplay is a backend platform for building, operating and scaling live-service games. |
Plans
Metaplay
- Community supportFree
- Community SupportFree
- FreeFree
- FreeFree
- Starter€195 a month
- Starter€195 a month
- Pre-launch€995 a month
- Pre-Launch€995 a month
- Standard support€1,500 a month
- Standard Support€1,500 a month
In their own words
LightLeaderboard
LightLeaderboard has no write-up on Specifiction yet; its figures are above.
Metaplay
Metaplay is a backend platform for building and operating live-service games. It uses a server-authoritative C# game server with a Unity client library and shared client-server logic. Its LiveOps dashboard includes player segmentation, A/B testing, over-the-air configuration updates, events, economy management, and player support tools. The SDK also includes guilds, social features, leaderboards, leagues, and asynchronous matchmaking; synchronous matchmaking is in active development. Hosting choices include managed Metaplay Cloud, customer AWS infrastructure, another Kubernetes cluster, or on-premises deployment. The platform supports Unity games on iOS, Android, Windows, Mac, Linux, and WebGL, with Unity 2020.3 LTS and later. The free plan provides the full SDK and a local server for local development. Starter costs €195 a month. Managed Metaplay Cloud supports single-region deployments; multi-region deployments are supported on self-hosted infrastructure.